Germans Wishing for Coal in Their Stockings for Christmas – IOTW Report

Germans Wishing for Coal in Their Stockings for Christmas

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BERLIN: “A rush like this in the summertime, it’s unheard of — everybody wants coal,” says Frithjof Engelke, a supplier of the briquettes which have become a hot commodity in the German capital.

A looming shortage of Russian gas in the wake of the Ukraine war has reignited enthusiasm for this method of heating private homes despite its sooty residue and heavy carbon footprint.

Engelke, 46, head of the century-old Berlin business Hans Engelke Energie, says it’s brought a bonanza for his family business: “My holidays will have to wait.” More

12 Comments on Germans Wishing for Coal in Their Stockings for Christmas

  1. WHEN THESE ARROGANT FUCKERS MOCKED TRUMP AT THE UN FOR HAVING THE BRASS BALLS TO CALL OUT THE REALITY HEADED THEIR WAY, I LOST COMPLETE INTEREST IN THEIR BULLSHIT

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  2. This is what you’re reduced to when the whole rest of the world spends kills off two consecutive generations of your Alpha males in two world wars and steals your best scientists at the end of the second one.

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  3. If they don\\\’t have an appropriate stove or heater, there will be a lot of carbon monoxide deaths this winter. \\\”Evil carbon\\\”, the greens will say.

    Coal can be burned safely, efficiently and cleanly in a home stove, but it requires some modification and training.

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  4. Coal Gasification is a process which creates SYNGAS

    See wikipedia:

    It was used by the Germans in WW-II to power Many of their Aircraft etc.
    They produced 124,000 Barrels per day in 1944.

    Might as well get started producing it for WW-III you stupid Fans of Shit-Porn.

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  5. Won’t the greens be pleased. No central coal burning power station complete with scrubbers, but millions of individual fires burning. Hahahahaha… erp!
    FJB/FKS

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  6. “Coal Gasification is a process …”

    Which the Nazis bought from Standard Oil.

    And it doesn’t “create” shit – it transforms coal into a different form.
    To “create” is to produce something from nothing – which only God can do.
    I know … I know … “usage is King.”
    “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more, nor less.”

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  7. They’re going to be wishing for toilet paper as well. Their big time toilet paper company went bankrupt. They’re insolvent. If it can happen there it can happen here.

    High energy and material prices – German toilet paper manufacturer Hakle is insolvent

    The hygienic paper manufacturer Hakle has filed for bankruptcy. As the “Lebensmittel Praxis” reports, the current energy and material prices in particular have recently caused the group to get into a crisis.

    More at the link: https://exorbit.net/tech/high-energy-and-material-prices-german-toilet-paper-manufacturer-hakle-is-insolvent/

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